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BrainEater

BrainEater

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I have to admit , I enjoy sitting back and watching some of the conversations here.
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My question is this :

If the top 30 posters in this sub-forum were put into a nice high quality bar/lounge setting , with free food and alcohol ,(or whatever) ...
Would it be chaos ?
Intelligent conversation ?
What would you all do with yourselves ?

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Balt

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Sonikku said:
Naturally in a RL situation we would have accountability and would need to act as rational human beings.
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I think some people here are beyond that. As in genuine mental illness kinda problems.
 
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brycejones

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I think it would be fine if a little tense at times as long everyone could hold their liquor.
 
KMFJD

KMFJD

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BrainEater said:
I have to admit , I enjoy sitting back and watching some of the conversations here.
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My question is this :

If the top 30 posters in this sub-forum were put into a nice high quality bar/lounge setting , with free food and alcohol ,(or whatever) ...
Would it be chaos ?
Intelligent conversation ?
What would you all do with yourselves ?

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Cheers !!
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Are guns allowed inside?
 
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agent00f

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Balt said:
No offense intended. There are some people here, however, who would start disagreeing that water is wet simply because the political party or news source they don't favor stated it as such.
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Lack of any discernible dignity technically isn't a mental illness.
 
sandorski

sandorski

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Balt said:
No offense intended. There are some people here, however, who would start disagreeing that water is wet simply because the political party or news source they don't favor stated it as such.
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You learn that from your Commie Ivory Tower City Slicking University Indoctrinator? ....
 
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Ackmed

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There is no way most people would talk to others as they do here in person. The name calling, insults, etc. It's safe behind keyboard. Brings out a more aggressive attitude that doesn't translate to real life.
 
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cbrunny

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All it would take is one individual to set everyone off though, especially if you knew which people were which posters. I'm pretty sure that I would not hold my tongue, and I'd probably end up getting punched. Or just leave after 5 mins because of the idiocy. Yeah I'd leave. You bunch aren't worth getting punched over.

Actually yea, no one would have fun except the Trumpeters. But then they'd get bored of yelling incorrect things overtop of actual facts and move on to sexually harass some waitresses or something.
 
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agent00f

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Balt said:
They don't just argue it, though. They actually seem to believe it.
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Whether they "believe" it or not is a matter of semantics, akin to what it means when people "believe" in jesus but votes for someone like Trump anyway. In general many people do what is in their self-interest, and it's in their ultimate interest to make selfish decisions appear as virtuous/smart as possible.

The OP is actually a very interesting question when you consider what more people choose to say with the cover of some anonymity. It turns out in many cases telling it like it is doesn't reveal some greater truth but rather turtles/dumbshittery all the way down.
 
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interchange

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agent00f said:
The OP is actually a very interesting question when you consider what more people choose to say with the cover of some anonymity. It turns out in many cases telling it like it is doesn't reveal some greater truth but rather turtles/dumbshittery all the way down.
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There is truth here. I think the appeal is more than anonymity. Lots of social psychology data show the same kinds of things. For example, when someone is brutalized with a single witness, that single witness often intervenes. When it happens in a crowd of people, very often people don't. It is much easier to fallaciously support your own identity when you perceive that the responsibility for warding off threats to this identity lies in an external entity (the group).

Personally, I don't care about anonymity here. I am happy to provide more transparency about my life and my identity. Were it not for real risks (patients and employees google, identity theft, etc.), I would put identifying information in my signature.

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To the OP's question, though, I think @Moonbeam and I would end up in a corner talking about increasingly abstract ideas until the absinthe had convinced us that we had transcended thought altogether, after which we would meander the room trying to Vulcan mind-meld everyone.

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Also, if this were a reality and it were in reasonable geographic range of me (southeastern US), I would attend.
 
PricklyPete

PricklyPete

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Ackmed said:
There is no way most people would talk to others as they do here in person. The name calling, insults, etc. It's safe behind keyboard. Brings out a more aggressive attitude that doesn't translate to real life.
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Agreed. It would likely be a cordial affair. Top off the fact that most people on here are likely socially awkward introverts.
 
BrainEater

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PricklyPete said:
Agreed. It would likely be a cordial affair. Top off the fact that most people on here are likely socially awkward introverts.
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I have to agree with you.

Back at the end of q2 /when Quake 3 first came out , I used to frag with about 10 guys online , and we were NOT friends then . Adversaries.
Then we decided to LAN together.
We are all really good friends now.Some of us have beers together weekly.

:beer:

edit: Is it not possible to edit thread titles ?
It's 'Theoretical' dammit !
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agent00f

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interchange said:
There is truth here. I think the appeal is more than anonymity. Lots of social psychology data show the same kinds of things. For example, when someone is brutalized with a single witness, that single witness often intervenes. When it happens in a crowd of people, very often people don't. It is much easier to fallaciously support your own identity when you perceive that the responsibility for warding off threats to this identity lies in an external entity (the group).
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That's just going along to get alone, aka mob mentality, which also results in crowd behavior individuals are disincline to perform themselves.

Personally, I don't care about anonymity here. I am happy to provide more transparency about my life and my identity. Were it not for real risks (patients and employees google, identity theft, etc.), I would put identifying information in my signature.
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Terrible idea given the crazies on the internet, many evidently infatuated with shooting people.
 
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Ackmed

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cbrunny said:
All it would take is one individual to set everyone off though, especially if you knew which people were which posters. I'm pretty sure that I would not hold my tongue, and I'd probably end up getting punched. Or just leave after 5 mins because of the idiocy. Yeah I'd leave. You bunch aren't worth getting punched over.

Actually yea, no one would have fun except the Trumpeters. But then they'd get bored of yelling incorrect things overtop of actual facts and move on to sexually harass some waitresses or something.
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And someone trying to start shit before anything ever happens. But that's the side of tolerance? Hilarious.
 
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realibrad

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I would love to have a cookout with many of the people on here. If anyone is ever in south FL, pm me.
 
Doc Savage Fan

Doc Savage Fan

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BrainEater said:
I have to agree with you.

Back at the end of q2 /when Quake 3 first came out , I used to frag with about 10 guys online , and we were NOT friends then . Adversaries.
Then we decided to LAN together.
We are all really good friends now.Some of us have beers together weekly.

:beer:

edit: Is it not possible to edit thread titles ?
It's 'Theoretical' dammit !
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The railgun instagib mod was awesome! Damn I miss those days.
 
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